I. breast 1 S3 /brest/ BrE AmE noun
[ Language: Old English ; Origin: breost ]
1 . WOMAN’S BODY [countable] one of the two round raised parts on a woman’s chest that produce milk when she has a baby:
These bras are specially designed for women with large breasts.
breast milk
breast cancer
bare-breasted/small-breasted etc
2 . CHEST [countable] written the part of your body between your neck and your stomach:
Dick cradled her photograph against his breast.
3 . BIRD [countable] the front part of a bird’s body, below its neck:
a robin with a red breast
red-breasted/white-breasted etc
red-breasted geese
4 . MEAT [uncountable] meat that comes from the front part of the body of a bird such as a chicken:
turkey breast
5 . CLOTHES [countable usually singular] the part of a jacket, shirt etc that covers the top part of your chest ⇨ ↑ double-breasted , ↑ single-breasted
6 . make a clean breast of it/things to admit that you have done something wrong
7 . EMOTIONS [countable] literary where your feelings of sadness, love, anger, fear etc come from:
a troubled breast
⇨ beat your breast at ↑ beat 1 (31), ⇨ ↑ chimney breast
II. breast 2 BrE AmE verb [transitive] formal
1 . to reach the top of a hill or slope
2 . to push against something with your chest